Follows is the general idea of our discussion on that particular morning.
Mike,
Just read this in the New West,
Who's doing this ~ the liberals or the conservatives? The liberals because they want a "more perfect world" or the conservatives because they don't want things to change? I don't really know, but where is this all going to end? Don't really know what the point of this "reintroducing" fad is. The latest count of Grizzly bears in the Priest lake area is in the neighborhood of 65 (probably much higher given the area that "the powers that be" surveyed!). We are having to learn how to "live with them". Why I'm not sure. Seems like we were doing just fine without them. The bears are doing fine in the Bob Marshal Wilderness Area, other wilderness areas along the Rocky Mountain Front and Yellowstone Park. It's not like they were or are an endangered species.*"Madel, a 23-year veteran of working with grizzlies along the Front, called 2009 an “unprecedented” year for bears wandering back on to the prairie, and says the bears’ presence there is only likely to increase in coming years.
That means an entire population of humans will now have to learn how to co-habitate with grizzlies. While the plains are historically grizzly country, for many living there now, the return of the grizzly is – to put it lightly – a surprise."
What with DNA and all, I suppose we could reintroduce the dinosaur. After all they were here first. ;-)
At any rate I wouldn't want to meet a Grizzly on the plains. Ain't no trees to climb!
hang and rattle,
skip
P.S. I may put this email to you on the blog!
I also had a rant in the email about reintroducing bad human types into our cities, but left it out above. I'm not really sure the analogy follows but we don't seem to be doing too well in that regard either. Damn life gets complicated!!
*Grizzlies were endangered but not when they reintroduced them to the Priest Lake area.
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